Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2020

Abstract

This paper proposes and analyzes a new virtual machine (VM) placement technique called Group Instance to deal with co-location attacks in public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. Specifically, Group Instance organizes cloud users into groups with pre-determined sizes set by the cloud provider. Our empirical results obtained via experiments with real-world data sets containing million of VM requests have demonstrated the effectiveness of the new technique. In particular, the advantages of Group Instance are three-fold: 1) it is simple and highly configurable to suit the financial and security needs of cloud providers, 2) it produces better or at least similar performance compared to more complicated, state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of resource utilization and co-location security, and 3) it does not require any modifications to the underlying infrastructures of existing public cloud services.

Keywords

cloud security, co-location attacks, virtual machine placement

Discipline

Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

2020 29th International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE): Bayonne, France, September 10-13: Proceedings

First Page

64

Last Page

69

ISBN

9781728169750

Identifier

10.1109/WETICE49692.2020.00021

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

City or Country

Los Alamitos, CA

Embargo Period

5-17-2021

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/WETICE49692.2020.00021

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